So Felix Gillette over at The New York Observer wrote a somewhat fluffy piece about veteran ABC News producer Mimi Gurbst, who, the story goes, is leaving journalism to pursue her dream of becoming ... a high-school guidance counselor.

Gillette assures his readers that Gurbst has the requisite skills, given her long-standing practice of advising her co-workers on personal matters. “She has spent immense amounts of time and patience counseling all of us, helping us through lots of difficult times,” World News executive producer Jon Banner told the reporter.

“Making our lives miserable” may be more like it, if the astonishingly vitriolic comments following Gillette’s article are to be believed. I would paste a few here, but I have no way of verifying the claims made. But by all means ... check them out for yourself.